- Visibility7
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality33
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Stop & Shop in 6.7% of answers, which matches the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 19 out of 100, ranking 2,021st of 2,047. The website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Stop & Shop. AI assistants named it in 4 of 60 answers (6.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Stop & Shop ranks 301 of 640 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Are there grocery chains with in-store pharmacies for easy prescription pick-up?”
Yes, many grocery chains, especially larger ones, have in-store pharmacies. This is a very common model designed for customer convenience.
Here are some of the major grocery chains in the U.S. that are well-known for having in-store pharmacies:
Kroger Family of Stores: This includes Kroger, Ralphs, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, Fry's, QFC, and many others. Kroger Health is a significant player in the pharmacy space.
Publix: A popular grocery chain in the Southeastern U.S., Publix stores almost universally include a pharmacy.
H-E-B: Dominant in Texas, H-E-B stores frequent …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
Not by itself. Stop & Shop publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.
- UCPNot present
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPCould not check
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersCould not check
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationCould not check
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtCould not check
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdCould not check
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 48 of 100 · 69% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · stopandshop.com · 2,047 companies scanned
3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- Not metToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- PassedExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
This website sets rules for 9 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extended*partly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgent*allowed
- FacebookBot*allowed
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebot*partly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- DuckAssistBotpartly
- MistralAI-Userpartly
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as Consumer brands. Number 13 on the NRF Top 100 Retailers 2026 list, ranked by US retail sales.
- Are there grocery chains with in-store pharmacies for easy prescription pick-up?
- Alternatives to traditional supermarkets for affordable grocery delivery
- Where can I find supermarkets with delivery services for families?
- What is the average cost difference between shopping at a supermarket and a discount grocery store in the US?
- Regional supermarkets versus national chains for fresh produce quality
- Do local supermarkets offer good value on organic items compared to standard groceries?
- How to resolve problems with digital coupons not applying at checkout in supermarkets?
- Which supermarkets are convenient for late-night grocery shopping?
- Supermarkets vs warehouse clubs for budget-friendly family groceries
- What should I do if my online grocery order is missing items?
- Best grocery stores for affordable weekly shopping in the US
- Best places to shop for groceries online besides large supermarket chains
- Where else can families buy bulk groceries if they can’t shop at a supermarket chain?
- Is it worth paying extra for a supermarket’s online grocery delivery?
- How do supermarkets price loyalty programs or membership benefits for shoppers?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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